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St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-09
THE NEW IRON TRUSTS.
Issuing Millions of Stock and Sell
ing Millions of Bonds.
The Various Mines of the GOgebic
Range to be Consolidated.

oiCHICAGo, Aug. S.-AmOng other ar
rivals in the city to-day are those OF
Hon. William Window, Jesse K. Grant,
Stephen W. Dorsey, and several East
eEn capitalists. They are on theiry way
from New York to Milwaukee. Ihey
have succeeded in establishing two of
the largest iron trusts known in the
development of ores. These trusts
comprise the purchase of all the I'M
pertant mines of the GOgebic range,
twenty-One in all, with two exceptions
the Colby, owned by the Wisconsin
Central railway people, and the Au-
rora, by Moore, Benjamin & Co., OF
Milwaukee. These twenty-one mines
cover about 81 200 acres of mineral lands,
which have an output of nearly 1,OO0,OoO
tons annually and which cost the trusts
in cash, Sc, $4,000 The details of this
transaction read like romance. The
deeds of transfer are ready for sigma
ture; they will be signed tomorrow.
The mortgage bonds are being printed !;
their sale has been negotiated. Capt.
n. ID. Moore was in this city yesterday.
He and his partner, III. S. Benjamin,
furnished the first full account of the
matter, of which only brief. vague
notices have appeared.
In speaking of the division of the
Gogeblc Range into two trusts. 1t would
seem that a superfuOus term is used.
Both trusts contain the names OF almost
identically the same capitalists and it is
a certainty of the future that these
trusts will be consolidated into one mon
opoly. At present they are known as
the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron
company and the Bessemer Consolidated
Iron company. The Lake Superior COM
pany is organized in Wisconsin, with a
capital stock of S10,000,000, in shares OF
S10O each, and first mortgage bonds to
the amonnt of $6.0O0,000 running ffteen
years at per cent. interest. The dlrec-
tors are: William Window, president;
Richard A. Elmer, treasurer; Jesse Il.
Grant, secretary; S. w. Dorsey, John
II. Rice, Edward M. Ha1ussey, n. D; ,;
Moore and F. A. Bates. The prices paid
by this trust and the outfit OF the prop
critics acquired are as follows:
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-09
WANTS A DIVORCE.
Unfaithfulness and Drunkenness
Charged Against a Wife.

Special to the Globe.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. S.-William F.
Loss, a resident of this state for the
past six months, but previously of New
York, has sued his wife, Florence A.
Loss, for divorce. Loss was promi-
nent Pearl street merchant in New
York, and, judging from his allegations,
lived in the fashionable quarter of the
metropolis. He alleges that he was mar
ried in New York, March 81, 1878.
He charges that while living at Forty
fifth street and Fifth avenue, i'll the
simmer of 1880, his wife committed
adultery with George Gushing, and that
in the fall of 1881 she went with Cushing
surreptitiously on trip to Scranton,
Pa, and remained there over night
with him. In the spring of 1888, while
living at Fifty-ninth street and Eighth
avenue, the plaintiff charges that his
wife committed adultery wife Clar-
ence Paul NIier, and again that
she violated the marriage vow by
illicit intercourse at his home at Tenth
avenue and Sixty-first street, with
Frank w. Lynch. AS separate cause
of action the plaintiff charges that his
wife for several years was constant
drunkard and that upon two occasions
her SpreeS were so prolonged as to re-
suit in delirium tremenS.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-09
THE STATE FAIR.

There is every indication that the
coming state fair will surpaSS in ex-
celIence all which have gone before it.
President MERRIAM and his energetic
assistants have been working diligently
and as result preparations for the
event are far advanced. The fair prom
ises to be complete in every department.
1t will not be interesting alone to the
farmers, in whose interests it was of
course primarily established, but to
business men and the general public as
well.
The merchants of the Twin Cities,
particularly those dealing in the sup
plies most necessary to agricultural
communities will find it decidedly to
their advantage to be represented with
a satisfactory exhibit, for it is quite
probable that the attendance will be
greater than ever before from among
those people to whose attention they
seek to bring their wares. Aside from
the exhibits there will be sufficiently
numerous attractive features to war
rant the attendance of those who come
more in the search of pleasure than in
struction or Information.
President MERRIAM seems to be uthe
right man i'll the right place, and even
if it is true, as some of our cOntempOra-
ries assert, that he is putting forth his
energy inthiS direction with a view of
impreSsing the Republican farmers Of
the state favorably against the arrival of
some political opportunity, we do not
see how that fact can be used in detrac-
tion of his excellent work.
Whatever the motive may be that in
spires him it cannot alter the result of
his labOrs, and whatever good opinions
he may win will be well deserved. Per-
hapS it would not be bad idea if some
of his political rivals would seek to inn
press the farmers of the state in the
same Way.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-09
EVIL OF BIG N1AJORITIEs.

The Democratic majority in Ken
tucky is not as large this year as it used
to be. Still, there is enough of it for
all ordinary purposes. As matter of
fact, it would be better for the Demo
cratic party in Kentucky if its majOri
ties were smaller. Overgrown majOri-
ties are baneful to political purity. An
evenly divided political sentiment in a
community is healthy condition of
affairs. When political parties are
equally balanced there is not much show
for political corruption. Fortunately
for the reputation of Kentucky Democ-
racy there have been no scandals assO-
ciated with the long continued Demo
cratic supremacy in that state. Official
honesty is still maintained, and no raids
on the public treasury have ever been
perpetrated. There is possibly no
state i'll the Union whose record
is freer from jobs and official
corruption than Kentucky's. At the
same time there is Il noticeable
indication of the lowering of the stand
ard of craftsmanship in a state which
has been pre-eminently noted for the
distinguished abilities Of its public
men. This degeneration is the logical
result of the big majority of the dOmi
nant party. Where political party feels
that it occupies an impregnable position
if it doesn't become corrupt it is apt to
become indifferent to its own reputation.
When it is once understood that nOmi-
nation is equivalent to an election there
is a strong temptation held out to the
small fry politicians to scramble for the
best offices. And they generally sue
ceed i'll getting there to the exclusion of
the better classes. This state of affairs
is nowhere more observable than right
here in Minnesota. The immense ma
ioritieS which the Republicans have
heretofore rolled up in this state have
had a prejudicial effect on Minnesota
politics. 1t is to be hoped that the re-
dUced Republican vote in Minnesota
last fall and the falling off of the Demo
cratic majority in Kentucky this year
will have purifying effect on the poll
tical elements in both states.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-09
KILLED BY GAS.
Fatal Accident to LabOrers in Al
legheny CITY.

PITTsBURG, Aug. S.-William Samp-
son and James Heron, two employees of
the CHARTERS Valley Natural Gas COM
pany, were SuffOcated by escaping gas
this afternoon while repairing regula-
tor under CHARTERS street in Allegheny
City. The regulator is in small sub
terranean apartment six feet below the
street. The two men descended into
this underground room shortly before 3
O'Clock and had been at work about tif-
teen minutes when an immense volume
of gas rushed out, aSphyaXiating them
in their deep and narrow quarters.
When the gas burst from the open reg
ulator into their faces they be-
came stitf1ed, but made an at
tempt to close the opening from
which the gas issued. Failing in this
they tried to climb out, but were so
nearly suffOcated that they could not do
SO, and cried aloud for help. A man
named Holler. who was passing, heard
the cry, and rushed to their rescue. He
climbed down into the manhOle, but
the unfortunate men by this time were
completely overcome, and had fallen to
the ground, their faces close to the eS-
Gaping gas. Holler tried to help them
W tiltII lttt. Uut tuty NtIt uudDlt W
move muscle to save their own lives.
HOller himself almost succumbed to the
effects of the subtle and treacher0uS
fluid, and only escaped with his life
through the assistance of a number of
men, who by that time had been at
tracted to the place. An excited throng
quickly gathered around the opening in
the street, and numerous plans for get
ting the men out of the hole were sug-
gested, but none dare enter the gaseous
apartment. Finally after thirty minu-
utes had elapsed the gas was turned off
and the men brought to the surface.
Life, however, was extinct. Both had
been dead probably twenty-five minutes.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-09
New Cable Rates.

FEW YORK, Aug. S.-The committee
having charge of the preliminary step
toward fixing the new cable rate is com
posed of Messrs. Green, of the Western
cable; Austin, of the French cable; Bar
low, OF the Commercial cable, aud
Chandler, of the United Lines Tele-
graph company. In the conferences it
has transpired that the Western Union
desired so cent per word rate; the
adirect people were willing to go to 60
cents: the French and Anglo-American
companies would agrees to any figure
that was high enough, while Mr..
Mackey insisted upon rate not over 40
cents and preferred 25.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-09
UNDEVELoPED COUNTRY.

Few people appreciate the extent OF
entirely undeveloped country yet re-
manning within the limits of the state
of Minnesota in spite of the great strain
of immigration which has set in during
recent years. 1t is true that the CEN
tral, eastern and southern portions of
the state are pretty well settled. ThrF-
ing towns and fertile farms are numer-
Gus and but little of the increaSe-giying
earth remains uncultivated.
In the northern part of the
state, save for occasional incur
sions of the lumbermen, the al
most inexhaustible resources remain
untouched. Indeed they are compare
lively unknown and except for the pros
pector, the trapper or the surveyor few
white men have travelled that region OF
great possibilities. 1t is only within the
past year or two that attention has
really been called to it with anything
like substantial outcome. The dis
cOvery of wonderfully rich iron deposits
has been almost the immediate result of
this attention, and it is now seen that
theaOrthern part of the state bids fair
-0utstrip all the rest in material
wealth.
Gov. MCGILL's recent trip to that
section developed the fact that immi-
grafton had already rushed in the wake
of railway development and that the
country was fast being improved. while
in the vicinity of Leech lake prosper
Gus village was already i'll existence.
1t would be much better for Mime
sofa and more to the advantage of many
immigrants if the latter, instead OF
rushing to the far West, far from a
market and where the choice land has
already been secured, could be induced
to remain in this state, or at least to
examine the resources of its nearly
virgin territory in the north before they
rush to ills they know not of farther
west
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-09
THE NEW CRUISERS.
Bids Opened for Their Construc-
ton YESTERDAY.

WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-Bids for the
new cruisers were opened at the navy
department to-day as follows: Cramp q
Sons, cruiser No. 1, class 8, 81, ,24S, 900;
Cramp & Sons, cruisers Nos. and 5,
class 1, s1,410,OO0; Union Iron works,
San Francisco, Nos. and 5, class l,
81 ,42S,000; Cramp & Sons. cruiser No. a,
class 2, 3-inch protective deck, 81, ,325,-
COO; Cramp & Sons, cruiser No. 5, class
2, 3-lnch protective deck, S1,325, 900;
Cramp 81 Sons, cruiser No. 4, class 2,
4-lnch protective deck, 81, ,350, 600; Cramp
d Sons, cruiser No. 4, class 2, finch pro-
tective deck, 81, $50, 900; Cramp Il Sons,
cruisers Nos. 4 and 5, class 8, 81, ,405, 900:
Cramp & Sons, gunboats Nos. and 4,
class l, S495, 600; W. F. Palmer 81 Co,
gunbOatS Nos. and 4, class l, S490, 900.
SECRETARY WHITNEY
said. after opening the bids:
1t is great relief to my mind getting this
out of the way. The requirements which the
contractors assume are more exactlng than
IN the case of any previous bidding. The
law for cruisers Nos. and provides that
the contracts for the construction OF them
shall contain provisions to the effect that
the contractor guarantees, that when COM
pletely tested for speed under conditions TO
be prescribed by the navy department, the
vessel shall exhibit maximum speed OF at
least nineteen knots per hour, and for every
quarter knot of speed exhibited above the
contract the contractor shall receive pre-
MUM over and above his contract price of
$4,000, and for every quarter knot that said
vessels fail of reaching said guaranteed
speed there shall be deducted from the con-
tract price the sum of $4,000. The depart
ment has prescribed four hours run for
the trial, the vessel to be loaded to her mean
draught; so that there is to be no shamming
in the condition of the trial. This contract
is bid for by both the Union Iron works and
Cramp u Sons, and it is a requirement which
calls for boat up to the highest point i'll the
matter of speed which these cruisers have
reached anywhere. l notice that the Cramps
offer to guarantee these results upon their
own designs for 500, 900 less than they ask
to do it upon the departments designs.
This shows confidence in their ability. OF
course, exactiCns of the bidding drive off
people who are not sure of their grounds;
but l consider that we are very fortunate in
being able to place all of the boats with re-
sponsible parties with these very exact re-
quirements. The gunboats are bid for by
Mr.. Quaintard, one of Mr.. Roachs assignees,
or rather by Mr.. Quintard's concern, and if
the award is made to Mr.. Palmer, he informs
me that the hnlls will be built at the Roach
works, at Chester, and the machinery at the
Quintard iron works.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-09
Died at Duluth.
Special to the Globe.

SptCldl W tllO
DULUTH, Aug. s.-Joseph R. Shook,
residing at 457 Toronto avenue, St.
Paul, died in the this city this evening
at st. Luke's hospital under peculiar
circumstances. The deceased was an
expert worker in attaching tubing
and fireproOf masonry and came here to
work on the Duluth National Bank
building six weeks ago. About month
ago he slipped and fell distance of only
four feet, splintering bone of the
left ankle. He was taken to the
hospital and amputation OF the leg was
decided upon below the knee: The op-
Grafton was successful, but the patient
was unable to recover from the shock
and died at 5 O'clock. He was mar
ried man, about fifty-five years old. The
body will probably be sent to st. Paul
for interment
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-09

were practiced, too. by a person who
claims to hold a seat as Republican
member of the next congress. We refer
to the developments that have recently
been made by the testimony taken in
the contested election case between
FRANK j. SULLIVAN and CHARLES n.
FELTON,, of the Fifth congressional dis
trict of the state of California. Mr..
SULLIVAN was the Democratic and
Labor nominee for congress, and Mr..
FELTON, was the Republican candidate.
On the returns FELTON, had
majority of 119, and received
the certificate of election, while
the testimony shows that on fair vote
and fair count SULLIVAN was entitled
to a majority of 1,731. The testimony
disclosed coercion, intimidation and
bribery of white voters, the like OF
which has never been surpassed in the
history of fraudulent elections in this
country. FELTON, was the favOrite can
didate of the SPRECKLES sugar ring and
a vast sum of money was spent by the
ring to defeat SULLIVAN. the Demo-
anu 11dDOl
also stood in with the mine owners and
the railroad managers and they contrib
uted their share of dust to the corrup-
ton fund. The result that thousands
and thousands of dollars were expended
for corrupt purposes, ballots were stolen
from the election officers and destroyed,
ballot boxes were stuffed, voters bribed
openly, judges of election tam
pered with, miners and railway
employees were marched to the polls
in body under the direction
of bosses, and their ballots deposited
without the men even so much as being
permitted to look at them. There has
never been witnessed a more open
scene of corruption than the testimony
reveals to have existed in the Fifth
California district at the last election.
The mine owners and the railway mama
gers made public announcement TO their
employees that unless they voted for the
Republican candidates they would be-
discharged. Such thing as free bal
lot and fair count does not seem to
have been thought of by the Republi-
can managers in the Fifth California dis
trict. And yet with all these evidences
Of white serfdom and ballot corruption
before their eyes, Senator SHERMAN is
as dumb as an oyster OH this subject
while he continues to rant about imagin-
airy election frauds in the Southern
states. Mr.. SHERMAN ought to pick
some of the partisan beams out of his
own eyes before he undertakes to find
notes in the eyes of other people. If
he wants to expose election frauds there
ought to be no discrimination on account
of race OF color. The poor white man is
surely entitled to as much consideration
as the negro. There is no reason why
the white voter should not be as fully
protected in the rights of citizenship as
the cOlOred brother.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-09

arise if these minor offices were not
regarded as spoils of victory, still the
administration, whatever its political
faith, would no doubt be much relieved
in being able to disregard them. But
there cannot be the slightest doubt as to
the sOundness of Secretary FAIRCHILD'
views regarding the advisability OF
Democrat occupying every position OF
trust or importance under the present
regime.
1t is duty owing the whole people
as well as to the Democratic party, and
should Secretary FAIRCHILD give an
earnest of the sincerity of his views by
discharging every Republican office
holder yet in the treasury department.
and it is understood there are many
of them-he would find his action very
generally applauded.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-09

Place of
Observation.
Higher. slower.
WINDOW ONCE MORE.

Really the energy of Hon. WILLIAM
WINDOW during this extremely enervat-
ing weather is as ineXplicable as it is
worthy of admiration. 1t was but few
days since that we were moved to speak
in words of cOmmendatiOn of the Organi-
zatiOn by the distinguished MinnesO-
tian, now of New York, of gigantic
company to operate the mines of North
ern Minnesota and Wisconsin.
That enterprise would suffice for the
occupation OF most men, but it seems
not so with Mr.. WINDOW. He has re-
Gently become the head of the directory
which has reorganiZed the Eads Ship
Railway company, and with associates
Representing practically unlimited capi-
tai purposes pushing the scheme to
successful conclusion without delay.
In two weeks the company will have a
meeting and the Atlantic 81 Pacific
Transit company will be organized
under the laws of New York.
- This new company, imbued with the
spirit of Mr.. WINDOWS energy, will be-
gin Immediately the construction of the
EADS' ship railway from the Gulf Of
Mexico to the Pacific ocean. The
scheme promises to be successful. At
any rate the capitalists interested in it
have sufficient confidence in its success
full outcome to furnish all the money
necessary without asking any assistance
whatever from congress. Experience
has demonstrated that if tranS-iSthmian
transit is ever accomplished it must be
by the EADs plan of a mighty railway.
The De LEsSEPS and Nicaragua canal
schemes have been proven in their cost
illness to be practically impossible. The
EADS plan, on the contrary, does not pre-
sent the same engineering difficulties,
nor does it contemplate anything like
the pecuniary outlay that either of the
others would involve. Even the small
est details were perfected before Capt.
EADs' death. and one of the directors
of the company was his lieutenant in all
of his great engineering featS.
With the energy which Mr.. WIN
DOM has given abundant evidence
of possessing as the main spring, there
is no reason why the greatest engineer
ing feat of modern times should not be
accomplished in the near future. That
it will be of immense Importance to this
country, which will of course control
it in time of necessity, and of enormous
profit to its projectors goes without say
ing. 1t was evidently greatly to Mr..
WINDOWS pecuniary advantage that
he was released from the thraldOm of
politics, and we trust his good fortune
will continue.
Doubtless there are many public men
in the state who have succeeded politi-
cally where Mr.. WINDOW has failed who
would be only too glad to change
places with him.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-09

was bound to go under. 1t has been able to
obtain only about S2S 100000 out of the
S45, 600, 900 it was to raise by the usurious
loan it placed on the Paris market. As the
company's interest charges are now SIS,-
0OO,0 900 annually it is not apparent how the
enterprise is to keep on its legs much longer
#.#
The Oklahoma boomers are bestirring
themselves once more. They have fixed
upon the 18th of this month as the date of
the next invasion of the territory. If the Okla
homa boomers would quit wasting their time
on projected territorial raids and concentrate
their energies in an attempt to break the
backbone of this prolonged hot spell, they
would be better appreciated by the American
public. -
The new constitution of Hawaii takes
away all of KALAKUA's monarchical DOW
ers but leaves him his salary. 1t is needless
to say that the new constitution was modelled
after the American idea. So long as the
salary is left it doesn't make any difference
what other features of the Office are removed.
~ =
DR.. DAYs vigorous defense of our ances1
tors in the chamber of commerce, yesterday.
was pretty tribute to the memory of our
forefathers. But it was wholly unnecessary.
The historical grandeur of their achieve
ments is the perfect vindication of their char
acters. Other ages and other countries have
achieved excellence in high degree in the
various fields of human action; but the pecu-
liar form and character of the American
government, which stands alone without a
model in the past, was their achievement.
No other testimony to their worth is needed.